Milk-bottle protector



Oct. 9, 1928.

s. BARDAXOGLOU MILK BOTTLE PROTECTOR Filed April 9, 192'? Q- 7i ukh,

A TTORN E I Patented Oct. 9, 1928.

STANLEY BARDAXOGLOU, or NnwYonK, N. Y.

'IMTLK-BOTTLE PROTECTOR.

Application filed April 9,

This invention relates to improvements in theft preventing devices andmore particularly to a device for protecting milkbottles from beingstolen or misappropriated by unauthorized persons.

It is the principal object of my invention to provide a simple andinexpensive device adapted to be readily combined with any house door orother part of a house and adapted to receive a milk bottle delivered bythe milkman, who then turns the protecting cover and bottle therein sothat the bottle can be removed only from the interior of the house,while the protector is automatically locked in this position againstrotation.

Another object of the invention is the prO vision of a milk protectorwhich may readily allow its attachment to any delivery box and which isequipped with a spring supported platform adapted to receive the bottle,the tension of the springs being so selected that the weight of thebottle and milk therein is sufficient to overcome their tension to allowthe locking pin to enter a suitable keeper hole in the door or box frameto lock the protector in its bottle protecting position.

A further object of my invention is the provision of a milk bottleprotecting device of this character equipped with a half-cylindricalprotecting cover surrounding the bottle on its supporting platform, androtatably arranged in the door or other frame which for this purpose isprovided with an opening just large enough to allow a freely turning ofthe protecting mantle or cover.

These and other objects and advantages of my invention will become morefully known as the description thereof proceeds, and will then be morespecifically defined in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a rear View of the milk bottle protecting device constructedaccording to my invention, locked.

Fig. 2 is a front view thereof.

' Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail view of the lower part of the milk bottleprotector showing the bottle supporting platform after the removal ofthe bottle.

As illustrated, a door or other frame'lO has provided therein alongitudinally extending vertical slot 11 limited at its inner face192?. Serial No. 182,491.

by a surrounding frame 12 or the. like. In

this slot is rotatably arranged a half-cylindrical bod-y 13 open towardsone side and turning about the upper pin 14 and the lower pin 15promoting from the door frame into the top and tively, the lower end ofthe-body being suitably guided in a guide 16 or the like.

A bottle supporting platform 17 is nor-- mally held in its elevatedposition by means of a plurality of supporting springs 18 attached attheir upper ends to the lower face of the platform and adapted to engagethe guide 16 with their lower ends. A pin19 depends for a certain lengthfrom the lower face of the platform at a certain predetermined pointthereof, and is adapted toengage upon the compression of the springs bythe weight of a milk bottle 20 and its contents an opening in the guideand in the bottom part of the door frame, as indicated at 21.

The central pin 15 attached to the lower face of the platform servesalso as lower pivot point for the body, as it is adapted to engage asuitable bore in the door frame as indicated at 22. The half-cylinderbody can be provided with suitable inscriptions on its front, forinstance such as shown Milk pro-' tector and a star or the like.

The operation of my device will be entirely clear from the abovedescription by comarison with the drawing.

The half cylindrical body is turned with its open side face towards theexterior of the building or box, and the delivering milkman places afull bottle of milk upon platform 17 compressing the springs andengaging the lower end of pin 19 with the frame until it arrives duringthe turning motion of the body over the bores in guide-16 and frame. Thetension of the springs is so selected that the weight of the bottle andits contents will compress the springs to such a degree that the lockingpin 19 can readily engage the bores 21 to lock the body which has beenturned by the delivering person with its closed side towards the outsidepreventing the bottle from being reached from the outside, while it canconveniently be removed from the inside of house or box.

It will be understood that I have shown and described the preferred formof my debottom wall of the body res'pecvice as an example only of themany ways the scope of the appended claims in its construction withoutdeparture from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1. Milk bottle protector comprising a halfcylindrical hollow body opentowards one side, means for allowing a rotation of said body within anopening in a door frame, aplatform within said body adapted to receivethe milk bottle, a plurality of springs supporting said platform, adepending pin on said plat form adapted to enter a bore in the doorframe upon the depression of the platform under the weight of a fullbottle placed thereon and upon the turning of said body to bring itsclosed bottle protecting side towards the outside of a building, saiddepending pin and bores being located at predetermined points and thetension of said springs so selected as to ensure the engagement of pinand bores for locking the device in its bottle protecting position withits closed side directed towards the outside of a building.

2. Milk bottle protector comprising a halfcylindrical hollow body opentowards one side, pins entering said body from opposite ends forallowing a rotation of said body within an opening in a door frame, aguide for the lower end of said body, a platform Within said bodyadapted to receive the milk bottle, a plurality of means for yieldinglysupporting said platform, a depending member on the bottom of saidplatform adapted to entera bore in the door frame upon the depression ofthe platform under the weight of a full bottle placed thereon toconstitute a locking means, said locking means being located atpredetermined points, and said yielding platform supporting means of atension to ensure the proper operation of said locking means for holdingthe closed bottle protecting side of said body towards the outside of abuilding to prevent a theft of the bottle and tampering with the bottlecontents after delivery of the bottle.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,this/7th day. of April, A. D. 1927. I

STANLEY BARDAXOGLOU.

